A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg

Summary/Discussion (of entire story):

This narrative feels confused--third person, then second with some unnamed narrator, advising--until you learn this character has crash landed on Mars and is semi-delusional. He believes he is stranded on a beach... No, he is a boy talking to boring man who looks like he is from Mars. He realizes by his footprints that he's alone on the sands of Mars, alone. Despite his inexorable demise, he cheers, "God, we made it!"